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Subject: Re: Help with restoring my drive
Message-ID: <1993Jun11.225857.11818@uvm.edu>
From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 22:58:57 GMT
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In article <1993Jun11.065650.28966@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>It also supposes a valid disklabel with exactly the same geometry as before;
>if you have to find that out, the only think you can look at safely is the
>first partition until you have the others squared away.  If he remebered his
>disklabel exactly, he could newfs -N, but not otherwise.

Which I why I made a point of putting copies of both my disklabels (in
``template'' form as required by the disklabel command) on my fixit
disk, so if anything gets frotzed, I can restore them, too.

(Unfortunately, I am much less sanguine about being able to restore
all my files from tape over the network, if the need arose.)

-GAWollman

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